I'm pleased that some folks are interested to read a bit more of the "Appalachian Leaves" material I posted about yesterday.

Here is the second sample, after which I'll use filtered/locked postings for this material.  If you want to be added, please comment on this or the previous entry (now or if you're stumbling across it in the future and would like access to the rest):

 

 

( Appalachian Leaves II & III )



Here is what I wrote in yesterday's intro:

I'm going to start posting the short "chapters" of something I wrote five years ago and would like to return to.  It is not a novel--it is some sort of Jungian active-imagination, or a shamanic trek into Inner Appalachia, a mythscape or a culture-scape of mythic shards.  It is postmodern in many ways, including stylistically, ideologically, spiritually and sexually.  It's also an experiment in Tricksterish ideation, and requires surrender to a stream of consciousness.  If you sincerely try to inhabit it at the conceptual level, it will make neurons fire differently.  (Don't worry--you can come back :-).

After a few samples, I will post them in locked entries, one a day, since there will be at least 30.  They are short, imagistic, archetypal "visions"... each operating under a different logic, and they are organized primarily by correspondence and association.  It is also folkart, and the Joan of Arc character is definitely an active part of the spiritual me (Joan is one of my Allies).  

If you want to be in the filter, please let me know by commenting and I will include you.  I will post 2 or 3 openly.

These are "Work" and "Spirit Books" more than they are anything else, though they could provide the basis for something else.  I want to see if I can return to the state of mind that generated these and get more, though.  I have also wished to ask for certain kinds of random collaboration, too, and may do that as a further kind of postmodern experiment.

Here is the first one, which is  longer than any others (at seven double-spaced pages--most are one or two):


( Appalachian Leaves I )